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2016 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2016 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, MEAC men's basketball tournament took place March 8–12, 2016 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia The champion received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 2016 NCAA tournament. Seeds The top 12 teams were eligible for the tournament, 2015–16 Florida A&M Rattlers basketball team, Florida A&M was ineligible for postseason play due to Academic Progress Rate, APR Sanctions. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Schedule Bracket * denotes overtime period References {{2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament navbox 2015–16 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball season MEAC men's basketball tournament 2016 in sports in Virginia Basketball competitions in Norfolk, Virginia College basketball tournaments in Virginia March 2016 sports events in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Scope
Norfolk Scope is a multi-function complex in Norfolk, Virginia, comprising the 11,000-seat Scope Arena, a 2,500-seat theater known as Chrysler Hall, a modular exhibition hall, and a 600-car parking garage. The arena was designed by Italian architect/engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in conjunction with the (now defunct) local firm Williams and Tazewell, which designed the entire complex. Nervi's design for the arena's reinforced concrete dome derived from the PalaLottomatica and the much smaller Palazzetto dello Sport, which were built in the 1950s for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Construction on Scope began in June 1968 at the northern perimeter of Norfolk's downtown and was completed in 1971 at a cost of United States dollar, $35 million. Federal funds covered $23 million of the cost, and when it opened formally on November 12, 1971, the structure was the second-largest public complex in Virginia, behind only the Pentagon. Featuring the list of largest domes, world's largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |